I don't have the book in front of me anymore, so I can't pull quotes from it, but I remember thinking as I read this book that the author didn't really understand what the Reformation was about. At one point, he says in effect "God's love responds to man's faith". The Reformers clearly taught that man's faith responds to God's love and His calling. I know that the book wasn't about in depth theology, but statments like the above made it hard to take the rest of the book seriously.

Dean Zahl is an intriguing and interesting preacher and author. I read the book as I am deeply interested in the Reformation - particularly in the United Kingdom. I was most impressed with his chapter on Lady Jane Grey who certainly should be the role model and main subject of the five. I believe he should have downplayed the role of Anne Boleyn because of the great sorrow her marriage to Henry VIII caused to his wife of 20+ years. I am of course referring to Katherine of Aragon. Henry and Cranmer's treatment of the Queen was cruel and should not be defended in any modern Protestant forum. Indeed in Britain in Peterborough Cathedral her grave (desecrated by Protestants) was restored and now befittingly says "Katherine The Queen". I otherwise enjoyed the book but wish he had not remained silent on this issue when proclaiming Anne's virtues. A modern parallel might be considered in the relationship of Edward VII and Alexandra - Alexandra a devout Protestant endured Edward's numerous affairs. Katherine endured the same with Anne. I have read all of his books and consider him a scholar on Anglicanism. A little more compassion for Katherine would have made me rate the book higher.

"There was a king of Yvetot, " wrote the French poet Pierre-Jean de
Beranger, "little known to history." Pick any period of history of which
you are especially fond, and you will feel strongly that some figure you
deem important is too "little known."

Consider the era of the English Reformation. It is a time of tumultous
change. A king shifts his faith, leaders are burned at the stake, people
flee the country, many monasteries are destroyed, and the king's successors

shift back and forth in the middle of the sixteenth century with astonishing
rapidity. Read any work on this time and the authors TEND to focus on the
politics, the leaders, the church, the liturgy and the men. When a woman is
mentioned at all, the one bright light that gets nearly all the attention is
Elizabeth I (1533-1603).

Nearly all the other women are less noticed, and when they are focused on
little is said about the role THEOLOGY plays in their lives and ministries.
In a highly provocative and little noticed book, "When Life and Beliefs
Collide : How Knowing God Makes a Difference" (Zondervan, 2001), Carolyn
James writes: "As I have met with hundreds of women, I have encountered a
wide spectrum of negative attitudes towards theology, from casual
indifference to open hostility, and all points in between. Here and there,
a few women may find theology fascinating, may even devote a lot of time to
study it, but they are exceptional and, in the opinion of some, a little
peculiar. Beyond these rare exceptions, most women cannot be bothered."

Well, in the period of the English Reformation women COULD be bothered,
indeed fascinated, by theology, as Paul Zahl's "Five Women of the English
Reformation" (Eerdmans, 2001) shows. Dr. Zahl picks Anne Boleyn
(1507-1536), Anne Askew (1521-1546), Katherine Parr (1514-1548), Jane Grey
(1537-1554), and Catherine Willoughby (1520-1580) for his examination. "All
of these woman thought theologically," he writes. "They were lay
theologians. They read theological books, most especially the Bible, and
anything to which they could gain access from the continental Protestant
Reformers. They talked theology. Their inner circles were
twenty-four-hours-a-day Bible studies. They saw everything that happened
through two lenses: the lens of the providence of God and the lens of the
furtherance of the Reformed religion."

For Dr. Zahl, the "Reformed religion" comes to England in three successive
parts. "The first phase of Reformation theology was justification by grace
through faith rediscovered. The second phase was the implications of
justification by faith for the Mass, the Mass being the central action and
transaction of medieval Catholicism. The third phase of the English
Reformation was the focus on election and predestination."

Phase one concerns Anne Boleyn, "who died meekly but gave away nothing." So
completely was she erased from the official record "it became as if she had
never lived." For Zahl, however, she left the indelible mark of her faith.
"As queen, Anne understood her providential mission to be.to bring the
Reformation to England and employ every single instance of patronage and
influence to that end." What is the human predicament? "The human person is
caught up in himself and herself until set free to love by a prior exterior
love." That prior love is the love above all loves, and the heart of Anne's
faith, "the forgiving love of Christ Jesus, without which all human
endeavors of love are doomed to be scripted and need projected."

The second phase of the Reformation involves another Anne. "Anne Askew's
primary target was biblical teaching concerning the eucharist, and more
precisely the idea of transubstantiation. Anne was burned for denying
transubstantiation. Her denial of it was aggressive. In fact she mocked
the concept!"

Zahl believes Anne Askew rejected transubstantiation for two reasons.
"First, it is irrational to say that God can be contained within any object
of any kind..`God will not be eaten with teeth': This is the Enlightenment
or critical, deconstructing side of Protestantism in early form." Anne's
second reason Zahl calls an "evangelical" one, namely the notion that Christ
's atoning death occurred once for all. "To conceive of the Eucharist as a
sacrifice of repetition, by which the benefits of Christ's death are
presented new and actual each time on the altar, was to denigrate the `one,
full perfect sacrifice'" of which Cranmer wrote.

The final phase of the Reformation concerns Catherine Willoughby, the
duchess of Suffolk in 1533, who lived the longest of the five women treated
by Dr. Zahl. She addresses primarily the subjects of divine will,
providence, and election. When she loses her sons Charles and Henry to
death, she seeks to understand it as a "mercy. She means that by taking
away from her, her very most cherished prerogative-her children and her
attachment to them-God has intentionally forced her to rely solely on Him."
Zahl confesses this is "counterintuitive" yet sees it as the inevitable
outflow of Luther's theology. "If grace alone saves, then God alone is the
willing actor in all human events.Contemporary people make heavy weather of
this. Our ancestors generally accepted it."

So here is vintage Zahl: compact, pithy, and theologically oh so rich.
Appropriately, there is a chapter of reflection by Mary Zahl which concludes
with the best call of the book: "Study the Bible.be courageous.See God as.
[your] only authority.Be grateful that .[we are] not being asked to die for"
our faith.

For all the talk about theology, however, this theologian was most struck by
all the suffering these women went through, the physical agony, the
emotional trauma of becoming convenient victims in other's schemes, and the
lives cut so terribly short (Willoughby excepted). "What I think we can say
regarding the steel of our heroes' convictions is that in each case their
new convictions were made firmer by means of affliction, loss and
harassment." Indeed. "Shall I fall in desperation?" Katherine Parr asks.
"Nay, I will call upon Christ, the Light of the world. The Fountain of
life, the relief of all careful consciences, the Peacemaker between God and
man, and the only health and comfort of all repentant sinners."

Oh how they suffered, but they suffered for and with Christ. May God grant
us similar rich and deep devotion to him in our generation.

--The Rev. Dr. Kendall S. Harmon (ksharmon@mindspring.com) serves as Theologian in Residence at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in Summerville, South Carolina

This book is extremely small, but still, it could have been shortened into a few concise paragraphs.

The first third of the book is a repetitious litany on how to splice tape, label boxes and use a DAT. It haphazardly hints at the numerous steps one most go through to prepare the audio for reproduction. Then states that if you're going to burn a Red book CD, none of this is necessary. Good then, let's skip it.

The second third is about how to cut and paste digital audio using editing software. If you've ever used audio software then you can skip this part too. Actually if you even have audio software, you're better off just playing around with it, so you should skip it also.

The last third is a glossary. Yes, an entire third of the book is an appendix. It gives the definition of many useful industry terms. For instance, STEREO, WAH-PEDAL, TRACK, and VOLT.

Example:

VOLT,
A unit for measuring electricity.

I would skip it.

This book is a quick read that sets you up to use your ears truthfully and your equipment efficiently. An asset and great start for anyone with even a slight interest in mastering audio. Use this book as soil to grow your skills, and keep it in your back pocket during your first few mastering jobs.

Is a very good book. That is what wizard made. The book give you a solid foundation. If you want to learn fast, then this is the book for you! I use this 3 books a lot. You must read its!!!

This book is not really a restoration guide, it is more like a parts catalogue. There is very little info on how to restore a GTO. Instead it is just a book of endless part numbers with some exploded diagrams. Also the chapters are confusing, they should be divided by the year of the car. Instead the chapters include all years on the same topic. You can be on one page reading about a console for a 67 GTO and you turn the page and all of the sudden you are looking at a dash board for a 72 GTO! A very poor efort.

I would have to agree mostly with the comments from the person from Locust Grove. The book makes a real attempt at naming all the part numbers but thats it. The organization was terrible. The blow up diagrams are helpful (if you have a magnifying glass) and it can be real confusing matching pictures to their proper years. If your seriously going to restore a GTO, buy the car first and then buy the original shop manual, wiring diagram parts list and so on. You can get it from Llyod's website which is linked under DealsonWheels.com. It'll run you over 200 bucks but its well worth it, it covers the specific year and some of the manuals come printed on oil resisitant paper, A nice touch.

Give me a GTO over a women anyday, at least the "Goat" won't talk back to you......

This book is not a perfect guide to restoring a GTO but it is an invaluable aid in that effort. It does not read like a how-to book, however, and if that is what you're after you might look at a number of other excellent guides along that line. But you will eventually most likely wind up getting this book anyway simply because it contains so much information. Sometimes it's hard to find, some of the illustrations were not well reproduced and some of the material infers what you want to know as opposed to outright statement.

But, and this is a biggie here, considering the myriad years, models, and variants of the GTO over its too-short lifespan a comprehensive detailing of all information for all possible equipment would require a forklift to move around. For more practical uses, this is an excellent choice although, as stated earlier, you will probably find it works best in conjunction with other material as opposed to being a single-source reference.

I have found the book very helpful on many occasions and if you have a GTO you care for you'll probably find it similarly helpful. If you have a GTO you don't care for, seek help, it's probably still okay.

Another book that is not worth the paper it is printed on.

I wish I hadn't opened the CD encasing so I could return it and get my money back. Unfortunately, it was required for an AfterEffects class last term and I had no choice. By the end of the class even the instructor gave up on the book. This term the instructor went back to the Classroom in a Book even though it's for AE 5.0, and rightfully so.

The examples are impossible to follow, the support files are incomplete. It's just a pain to learn from.

This book is not very good if you are a brand new user to After Effects. I found myself continuously going to the help button to find the item the book told me to use. I thought about selling it back as a used book, but I didn't want to be responsible for someone else wasting their money. Do not buy this book unless you already know the basics in After Effects. There are some good tips, but that was not why I bought this; I had never used After Effects and thought this was a step by step tutorial.

Having just had my hip replaced one week ago I thought this book was too silly. An 80 year old in rehab might get a kick out it's attempt at humor but a 40 year old with a wife and 3 children trying to make it on disability needs alittle more insight on the real life mental aspects of hip replacement surgery. Paul's description of his days in the hospital were accurate but over dramatized. I believe a woman giving birth has it tougher that a hip replacement patient. But on the plus side reading this book may have inspired me to write my own book.

I found the "yellow" pages of the book (which were the majority) to be vacuous and not humorous at all. In fact, I found much of it offensive.. The "white" pages were somewhat informative, but why write a book on this subject and say things like "but I will spare you the details of that" .... I want the details before I have the surgery !

Finding simularities between the book and my own experiences gave me a smile to my face more than once. Why live with the pain as I had both of mine replaced as soon as I could. Paul gave a lighter side to the operation and recovery. The book was, I believe, to give one persons experience with total hip replacement and was not to be the "do it yourself" type book that some wanted it to be.

I was misled by the 4.5 star average rating of the book reviews. Even as fiction, the story was totally unbelievable. It was a complete waste of my time and money.

I picked up this book knowing it was fiction and was expecting no more than light entertainment. The first few chapters started out well enough.

I recognized serveral character whom Mr. Sasser drew from real life: Capt. Bill Lange was really Capt. Jim Land, founder of 1st Marine Div. sniper school, and certainly Pablo Rhoades was Gy. Sgt. Carlos Hathcock ,one of this nation's best marksman and sniper. I thought maybe Sasser's John Able was an combination of other real life characters J.T. Ward and/or Charles Mawhinney. The other characters, Kragel and Brigette Nguyen, were comic book like, but so what.

Then as the book progressed, I started to cringe. Sasser perpetuates the myth held by many that snipers was either psychopaths or otherwise psychologically unfit, who had to allay their traumas by killing and counting scalps.

Ok, other fictional snipers are bent, Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger certainly isn't the picture of mental health. But, Hunter's book are at least grounded in reality. Anyone familiar with sniping or military operations will spot numerous glaring errors.

Every cliche is here, stone cold killer with a soft center, whore with a golden heart, world weary journalist who finds redemption in war.

I certainly wasn't expecting Crane's Red Badge of Courage, but I was surprised to get Mack Bolan's The Executioner.

Mr. Sasser claims in the end page that he was a "Green Beret Medic", I would ask Mr. Sasser this. Do you think your book would be a fitting reflection of men such as Medal of Honor winners, Sgt's Gary Gordon and Randy Shugart, snipers, Delta Force C Squadron? (These two heroes, upheld the highest traditions of the Special Forces, when they died in order to save their team members in Mogadishu, Somalia.)

To the two young men who wrote the other reviews. I would recommend that you read "Marine Sniper" by Gy. Sgt Carlos Hathcock, II.

Gunny Hathcock was a real-life hero, who was not only a shooting champion and battlefield sniper with 93 confirmed kills. Most importantly, he was a man willing to risk his life to save his fellow marines.

Warning! This book is only for a person that loves military tactics. Watch as a world class Marine sniper goes for his 100 kills. This book is not really a strong-plot reading book, but an almost Jeffery Chaucer sort of book. It has a little bit of everything to represent war. If you read this book, remember characters aren't all that they seem. They may be more. This book has everything from ARVN aircraft, to Huey gunships. My father is a Vietnam Era Air Force Veteran, and this book has everything the military does. A great read. Not for kids.

This book is not a how-to guide for setting up your books, nor is it an introductory "accounting for dummies" type book. It is a review that reflects the topics taught in introductory accounting classes. As a result, topics are presented in a concise manner, then the text moves on to the next topic.

Although I love the terse, no-nonsense style of the Business Review series, I was somewhat disappointed in this book. Double-entry accounting is summarized, not explained. It does, however, cover the basics with real world examples and exercises.

Purchase orders are only mentioned in passing. Sales invoices, sales receipts, service invoices, and are not mentioned at all. The chapter on receivables and payables focuses on methods of writing off bad debts, and extending credit.

If you are looking for a review for your accounting class, this might be it. If you are looking for a one-stop resource to help run your business, you might finish this book and find yourself reaching for other books to fill the gaps.

After reading other "overview" books, this one Ifound to be the most effective. Eisen gives an excellent breakdown ofmajor accounting concepts. He gives enough detail to explain concepts in a pratical manner yet still handles every major area I needed information on; he's comprehensive yet still concise. Information about the chart of accounts, general ledger, journal, sales transactions, costs, etc. were all explained with the assumption the reader is a beginner without treating the reader like an idiot. I'm glad I found this book.

I learned the principles of accounting in a week using this book. These are the things I like about it:

1. Copious examples
2. Small in size and inexpensive
3. Explains accounting from a manual perspective (ie does not assume that you have Quickbooks, etc). That way you get to learn the underlying principles better
4. Covers all the bases in an introductory course

I would highly recommend this to individuals that want to learn accounting. This is an excellent first book. Keep in mind that once you have mastered the basics from this book, you will want to go to other more advanced texts.

Unlike lawyers Grisham, Turow, and Scottoline, turned writers, Steve Martini is a journalism graduate and writer who went on to become a lawyer! (Seems there ought to be a good joke in there somehow!) He must be doing fine, as his booklist now numbers eight (five of which comprise the defense attorney Paul Madriani series), with a ninth hardback due out late this year. Let's get real here folks -- this is his first book, and we thought, not bad at all.

In a very complex plot, almost shades of Clancy, we're quickly engrossed into the hunt for possible survivors of a 1942 blimp crash; a search for 16th century documents, possibly the journal of the explorer/pirate Francis Drake; the murder of the partner (and former {?} love interest) of the leading man, lawyer Sam Bogardus; and some other crimes and problems too numerous to recount. There's really not much lawyering happening, and sure, some of this winds up a little silly and improbable, but hey, it's mystery fiction. We thought the goings-on, climaxed by a very neat wrapping up of all the puzzles and murders, plus one totally unexpected revelation in the epilogue, were indeed quite entertaining. And the huge surprise ending left us aghast -- we cannot imagine many at all will be the slightest bit prepared for this icing on the cake!

In sum, a fine plot with quite a neat ending, with good story telling hurt somewhat by a few weak characters and/or some improbable action, gives Martini's first effort a passing grade, leaving us anxious to try his second outing and first of the Madriani set. Why not!

Some of the other reviews considered this to be a pretty poorly written book, but I found it to be very entertaining and the ending was a real surprise. The Simeon Chamber is not on the level of a Grisham or Turow novel, but I'd put it right there with a writer like William Bernhardt. It's a quick read and it is a page-turner. You may also learn a little about Sir Francis Drake that you didn't learn in high school or college. Give it a try.

Uh - what was that? One of the weirdest stories I've ever read, that's what. If you want a farcical story stringing together Sir Francis Drake, German Nazis, Chinatown, William Randolph Hearst, and a bunch of adventurous lawyers, then this book is for you. The ending was unexpected, and caused me to exclaim, "oh come on" out loud as I discovered who killed our hero's partner. For Martini fans, this one has none of the courtroom drama, but does weave in a lot of adventure. The story was well paced, but too incredible.

[...] The previous review in its own right appears to be asimulation model of the ideal Book that doesn't exist. However, Paul Fishwick's Book is quite inadequate and subpar. Firstly, the Book is outdated, being published in 1995 and excluding many of the recent findings in the field. Secondly, the Book does not teach Simulation Theory. The author either assumes the student already knows simulation or simply wishes to deceive the student into believing thats somehow whats being taught. Fishwick's Book is quite inadequate, outdated, and far from being considered an adequate text on simulation. Fishwick's Book details only one aspect of simulation which is the graphical representation of modeling which is largely regarded a quite insignificant and minor feature of simulation theory.

This book's breadth of coverage is above average. It addresses nearly all of the basic simulation model designs in enough detail to allow the reader to come away with a good understanding of each of them. It does not focus on simulation and modeling in specific contexts, but rather on the general ideas behind and processes of modeling. On those occasions where more detail would aid in the illustration of concepts, that detail is provided. Lastly, the book addresses subjects such as conceptual modeling and multimodeling that are not usually covered in many other texts - concepts which are only now, some years after the publishing of the book, coming to the forefront of simulation and modeling research. Overall, use of the book should allow the reader to develop a creative, yet disciplined approach to simulation and modeling in its most abstract senses. A few words about another (anonymous, Lake Worth) review: I felt that "Ad Hominem" attacks and gross characterizations did not do the book the justice it deserves. Plus, the author of the review didn't take credit for it - what does that tell you?

This text is well written and easy to follow. The concepts are explained clearly and thoroughly. The text is supported well with excellent diagrams and illustrations that help convey the concepts. The exercises at the end of chapters are challenging, thought provoking, and enhance the learning experience.

The organization of the material is excellent. The text provides complete coverage of the subject. The bridging of the theoretical concepts to the application of these concepts to real world problems is excellent. The beginning chapters provide the background knowledge and a solid foundation of the subject to build on. The following chapters cover different simulation model designs. By exploring different ways to think and reason about any system, you will gain an appreciation for alternative approaches for a model design and their ramifications. After completing the text, you will understand simulation methodology as well as how to apply it to solve real world problems.

Dr. Fishwick's use of an interdisciplinary approach in explaining concepts with examples provides an open environment for creativity and imagination for applying the knowledge gained. He teaches an object oriented approach which provides a method of looking at any real world system at any level of abstraction for design of a meaningful model. In my opinion, this approach in teaching the subject of simulation is very effective in understanding the material as well as learning how to use theory in a practical and useful way to solve real world problems. He is extremely knowledgeable in all areas of simulation and modeling and has excellent ideas on further advancement of the field. His ideas are sound and well thought out. Myself having a background in industry and now pursuing further education, I am of the opinion that Dr. Fishwick is an expert is the academia arena as well as in the industry arena.

The subject is presented in an interesting way that creates a motivating and enthusiastic pursuit of the field of simulation and modeling. This is one of the best textbooks I have ever used. I recommend this text highly.

Don't you love your son? Don't you want him to be happy and successful? I beg you, please don't destroy his life by submitting him to the tripe espoused by Paul Kivel!

Allow me to explain what will happen to your little man should you proceed with this purchase and embrace the philosophies within. First, he's going to get beat up. A lot. After you explain to him that "violence doesn't solve anything" and you refuse to let him retaliate, he will grow confused and his grades will begin to suffer. (After all, violence solved the little dilemma about what to spend his lunch money on, didn't it?). Having already fallen out of favor with his classmates for being a sniveling coward, his teacher will now begin to harrass him about his classroom performance. And the poor little guy will have to go home to you telling him to quell every urge and instinct that he has as a male. He will feel afraid. Lost. Unaccepted and ostrasized at every turn. He will grow quiet and shy. He won't be able to use the restroom with the other boys watching. And he will retreat further and further within himself, which will cause him to get beat up more, which will cause his grades to suffer, which will invoke still more of your flawed philosphies about child-rearing........and the vicious circle continues.

At best, he will grow into a "geek" and be capable of interaction solely with computers. He will never have a date, a first kiss, a son of his own. His lack of social skills will relegate him to the janitorial profession. His life will pass without love or friendship or acceptance or understanding.

At worst, the term "loner" will be applied to him after yet another school tragedy.

Surely you'd want to avoid either of these scenarios, right?

If you are a single mother struggling with how to raise a boy, I am sympathetic to that. But instead of filling both your minds with senseless garbage about "equality" and "racism" and "homophobia", I suggest that you go out and get yourself a man. And I mean a real MAN. The kind that can kill a saber-toothed tiger with one blow from a stone axe. That's what the both of you need: a proper role model for your young son, and someone who can protect and provide for you.

However, if you ARE married, please march up to your husband right now and explain to him why you want to turn his strapping young man into a frightened, insecure loser.

Don't waste your money or your time on this book. The author is still stuck in the now debunked and outdated "Standard Social Science Model" of human behavior. He sees only the "nurture" side of the "nature vs. nurture" debate and refuses to aknowledge the role nature (biology and evolution) plays. Current scientific evidence and documented cases have proven gender-associated behavior is primarily determined by biology, and that it is a mistake to try to "socialize" boys into more "feminine" behavior. (The majority of men in prison today come from fatherless, female-dominated households.) This male-bashing book, with a radical feminist perspective, only perpetuates the myth that we are all "blank slates" at birth and can be molded into whatever political/social correctness is in vogue at the time. I highly recommend Michael Gurian's, A Fine Young Man (1998) as an alternative choice.

Paul Kivel has done it again with this excellent, pragmatic piece on how to challenge the forces that harm young men (and young women) in schools and families. As a professor of school and family counseling, I am always searching for pragmatic, effective, down-to-earth resources that will assist students, parents, counselors, teachers, and all others concerned about our youth. Kivel brings his substantial experience as an anti-oppression educator and activist from his work with the Oakland Men's Center into his latest work. Having seen him do his workshops live, knowing his unique abilities to affirm boys and men across all cultural identities, this work continues his excellent pragmatic scholarship in creating safe schools and families for all. Highly recommended and I have adopted it for use in my school counseling courses.